Organizational tools for psychosocial risk management: A Critical international review

Abstract

The modern context of work has manifested complex and severe work-related psychosocial risks, generating various destructive social and economic outcomes. Yet numerous psychosocial risk management tools (e.g., national standard implementation guides) are publicly available, offering practical guidelines for organizations to readily adopt in order to decrease the impact of psychosocial risks. While psychosocial risk management tools include a process of risk assessment, there is an additional secondary focus on facilitating more practical means to reduce negative outcomes. This chapter functions as a resource that outlines and critiques all identified psychosocial risk management tools, providing individual summary sections for more in-depth analysis. Through clearly presenting each organizationallevel psychosocial risk management tool, with key information and a deeper level of critique, this chapter operates as a valuable resource, and can assist with the transference of knowledge to all organizations regardless of geographical or resource-based constraints.